
Iain Macwhirter
Political Columnist and Commentator at The Herald (Scotland)
Columnist,Times. Spectator. Author: "Disunited Kingdom". BBC TV/ radio presenter for over 25 years. Former Rector Edinburgh University.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Iain Macwhirter
If the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is sincere in wishing to deprive Nigel Farage of the ‘oxygen of publicity’, he’s got a funny way about it. In a vituperative interview on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland today, he gave the Reform leader another blast of oxygen by offering a public debate on the eve of his visit to next week’s Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. This is publicity Reform couldn’t buy with any of the money it has so far devoted to a blitz on social media.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter
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2 weeks ago |
iainmacwhirter.substack.com | Iain Macwhirter
Who killed Brexit? It’s an intriguing question now that the decade-long war between the two Britains – Leavers and Remainers – appears to be over. And I think it is over, even though the UK is still outside the EU single market and the customs union. The guns have fallen silent as the Brits have, figuratively speaking, climbed into the railway carriage to sign the armistice. We know where we are going, and it is back to the European Union by stealth.
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter
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